Judge denies release from psychiatric institute for woman involved in 'Slender Man' attack
A Wisconsin judge has refused to release from a mental institution a woman who is serving a sentence for brutally stabbing a peer as a child to earn the favor of the fictional horror character Slender Man in a case that shocked the nation a decade ago.
A Wisconsin judge has refused to release from a mental institution a woman who is serving a sentence for brutally stabbing a peer as a child to earn the favor of the fictional horror character Slender Man in a case that shocked the nation a decade ago.
Morgan Geyser, now 21, in January had requested to be released from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute, and proceedings started Wednesday and continued Thursday.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren on Thursday determined Geyser posed a risk of harming herself or others, or of damaging property, and denied her release.
Geyser was sentenced to 40 years in a mental hospital in 2018 after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in the brutal stabbing of her then-sixth-grade classmate Payton Leutner.
In the May 31, 2014, attack, Geyser, along with peer Anissa Weier, lured Leutner, when they were all 12 years old, to a park in Waukesha after a sleepover, and Geyser repeatedly stabbed Leutner as Weier egged her on, prosecutors previously said.
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